Venezuela, Colombia reopen border crossings

Venezuela and Colombia are gradually reopening several “provisional” border crossing points for pedestrians for the first time in nearly a year, marking a turning point after long-running enmity.
More than 54,000 people entered Colombia on Saturday, 81 percent of them returning to their place of origin, immigration authorities said in Bogota. 
A total of six border crossings were opened in the Venezuelan states of Tachira, Apure, Zulia and Amazonas.
During three temporary border openings last month, some 150,000 Venezuelans, suffering from their country’s severe economic crisis, poured into Colombia to purchase food, medicine and other basics.
Early Saturday, the flow of pedestrians was relatively light across the Simon Bolivar Bridge from Tachira to the Colombian city of Cucuta, but longer lines began to develop as the day wore on.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles took to Twitter to criticize the closure.

Source: Arab News